Congratulations to Ryan Shaw, associate professor, Jane Pendergast, of the Duke Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, and their entire team who have received an award for their NIH U24 proposal entitled: "Log2Lose: Incenting Weight Loss and Dietary Self-Monitoring in Real Time to Improve Weight Management." This award is for a five-year period, awarded September 15, 2020, to August 31

Kudos to Isaac Lipkus, professor, and his entire team for the submission of their subcontract proposal on Virginia Commonwealth University’s NIH R01 application entitled: "Characterizing Toxicant Exposure/Yield, Behavior, and Abuse Liability of the Electronic Waterpipe." This proposal requests funding for a four-year period with a start date of July 1, 2021.

Mariam Kayle, assistant professor, and Wei Pan, associate professor, contributed to "

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Understanding network bandwidth

Visit the Speedtest website to check your network bandwidth. (Go ahead, it’s quick.) Do you have at least three Megabits per second (Mbps) speed? Great. Right? That’s what we’ve been saying.

Well, not exactly. Like most things, it’s not that simple.

Antonia M. Villarruel, Margaret Bond Simon Dean of Nursing for the University of Pennsylvania, and Dean Marion E.

The School of Medicine's Multidisciplinary K12 Urologic Research Career Development Program (KURe) is accepting applications for its Multiyear Diversity Supplement. This will be a funding opportunity for Duke junior faculty, fellows, and postdocs with doctoral degrees.

Staci Reynolds, assistant professor, coauthored "How an interactive game improved hand hygiene adherence" for American Nurse, ANA's official journal, with Anna Southerland of Duke University Hospital.

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Karin Reuter-Rice, associate professor, has been selected as a 2020-21 Duke Clinical & Translational Science Institute Health Disparities Research Curriculum (HDRC) program scholar.